It's great. The news service is easy to use and for a bit more you can get the SandP squawk box. I make the monthly fee easily by catching news pops, but be careful trading those if you don't have experience.

Have you not done the 2 week trial? You get two weeks, don't need a credit card or anything.

There is cheaper squawk box, tradersaudio.com. Google traders audio discount page and you'll get some links for the discounted rate of 75 dollars a month. You can also get traders audio for free if you have thinkorswim. Check the chat rooms on the software in thinkorswim and you'll find it.

Interactive brokers has a live reuters feed, you may want to look into that as well. It's free if you produce enough commission.

The nickname for that service is "Fadethenews". Too many pikers use it. The superior news services cost significantly more and are geared for institutions. Considering the lag of Tradethenews.com behind the other services, you might as well use briefing.com instead.

The question si do you trade the news or do you trade the technical info ffrom your charts. It is important to know what your method is. You need to define that and write a trading plan, stick to that plan once you know it works. It takes patience and discipline, lots of it.

After being a customer of TTN for more than 4 years, last Thursday they unilaterally closed my account. "Support" said there was "suspicious" behavior on the account and that "management" decided to close it.

That's it. No other option. Can't speak to "management" - they must be very important people.

I know what happened. I installed an anonymous IP address product on the TTN pc a few days earlier which rotates that pc's IP address every 30 minutes. This is to protect that pc's identity on the web. Obviously TTN did not like this. Fair enough I suppose, but you would think they would at least call or email their customer about it first before simply throwing them out the door after 4 years.

After being a customer of TTN for more than 4 years, last Thursday they unilaterally closed my account. "Support" said there was "suspicious" behavior on the account and that "management" decided to close it.

That's it. No other option. Can't speak to "management" - they must be very important people.

I know what happened. I installed an anonymous IP address product on the TTN pc a few days earlier which rotates that pc's IP address every 30 minutes. This is to protect that pc's identity on the web. Obviously TTN did not like this. Fair enough I suppose, but you would think they would at least call or email their customer about it first before simply throwing them out the door after 4 years.